6.0: WoD with orcs
7.0: Burning Legion invasion, will not face Sargeras
8.0: Old God expansion, getting involved with titans
9.0: Argus, kill Kil'jaeden once and for all
10.0: Super space adventure time, time for Sargeras to die
23.0: Sargeras didn't die, but now we face his avatar
88.0: No, I'm not going to be silly enough to type something serious here

I think they'll continue to be behind the scenes for a while, like in MoP, Cataclysm and Wrath. You might argue that Cataclysm was an old god expansion, but it wasn't insanely obvious after twilight highlands. Maybe after a few more cameos we'll see one actually materialize and start wrecking stuff.

It was obvious, you had to fight Al'Aqir and Ragnaros, two servants of the old gods, almost every mob were saying things such as "It's true that we serve Deathwing, but our true master is an even greater force", you had to fight the twilight hammer, Cho'Gall is covered with eyes which is one of the old gods signature, there was loads of faceless ones : you just had to play on WotLK to instantly know that they're old gods related when you see them, giant maws & tentacles in DS.

As I said we heard more from N'Zoth than we did from it's expansion final boss, Deathwing.

Mmm, Old gods were all over the universe until a titan locked them up in azeroth, so the only known old gods are still in azeroth. since we're taking the fight to draenor, i think we'll have a higher chance of seeing demons than old gods in WoD.

Umm. What?

The Titans didnt lock up every single Old God in the universe on Azeroth like it was some kind of galactic prison. They just fought the ones that happened to infect Azeroth during it's developmental stages. There are god only knows how many more "Old God" type beings floating around the vast cosmos of blizzard's warcraft universe.

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If we had an Old God in WoD - wouldn't it be younger? :P

A "Not Quite as Old God"? Then again, what is a few decades to something with a lifespan likely measured in eons?

Sure they pop up, but just because Deathwing was made insane by them and Garrosh stole a heart, does not make it an Old God themed expansion.

Vanilla and WotLK had Old Gods as well.

In my opinion, WotLK was the most Old God 'themed' expansion.

I hope we have an expansion with N'Zoth as the portrayed bad guy from the start, then that will be a Old God themed expansion.

Except the war between the alliance and the horde is really just the catalyst to the greater evil of the sha gaining more influence in Pandaria, and the sha being the remaining essences of an old god. And being created when Pandaria was shrouded by the emperor. And Garrosh being "corrupted" by an old god.

And you know, Deathwing becoming a giant tentacle monster empowered by an old god and the only reason he became insane being that he was corrupted by said old god.

I mean, what EXPANSION - no t in expansion to the other poster in this thread, hasn't been largely influenced by old gods? Burning Crusade. That's it.

No, just because an old god appears doesn't mean it's "Old god themed"
Burning Crusade is all about Illidaris & the legion
Yogg is nothing but a filler in WotLK.
Sha is retarded and despite being the residue of an Old God it fails at reproducing the same feeling.

No, just because an old god appears doesn't mean it's "Old god themed"
Burning Crusade is all about Illidaris & the legion
Yogg is nothing but a filler in WotLK.
Sha is retarded and despite being the residue of an Old God it fails at reproducing the same feeling.

But they are all focused on how "the old gods corrupt everything"

Pretty much everything that is "evil" in wow is caused by the old gods or sargeras in one way or another.

If I recall correctly, the underwater raid featuring an Old God in Cataclysm (http://www.wowwiki.com/Abyssal_Maw), was supposed to theme Cataclysm as an Old God expansion as well. However due to lack of time they skipped this raid for now. I am unsure what was supposed to be inside, but I wouldn't be suprised if it has something to do with N'zoth.

I really wonder who or what the last Old God will be, especially because Old Gods seem to corrupt evrything. Could it be that it has corrupted the players? That the last Old God is actually "The Holy Light" or "Elune" and that we are all minions of him?

Chris Metzen already stated that the Emerald Nightmare as an expansion is not going to happen. Maybe as a raid (will look a bit like DragonSoul with all kind of "known places"). We know for sure that Xavius died, but Hakkar the Soulflayer is still alive, Hakkar who is presumably a son of an old god (N'zoth seems likely).

Quoting this: "During the War against the Nightmare, it was revealed that the the Emerald Nightmare was under the rule of a figure known as the Nightmare Lord, who in fact was really Malfurion Stormrage's old nemesis Xavius. However, it was also revealed that Xavius himself was a minion of a powerful yet ancient evil, residing in the Rift of Aln, and possibly also beneath Azeroth's oceans. This evil is the Old God N'Zoth."
shows the link between Abbysal Maw and Emerald Nightmare.

Will we have another Old God themed expansion? Yes I think so, if you call an expansion old god if it features atleast one of them.

Yes. We still have N'Zoth to contend with -go to 2.32 in the following video for the question:

So if The Dark Below does become real at some point, it could be a South Seas/Azshara/N'Zoth expansion. And there's always the idea that if we go to other planets, we may encounter them because they're inter-dimensional beings (imagine one of those evil horrors floating through the Twisting Nether).
We shouldn't have one for a while seeing as they've been featured almost constantly (apart from the one summoning quest in TBC with the Dark Conclave tribe in SMV) in every expansion. Give it a rest for at least 4-5 years.

Isn't it ironic how education is important, yet people forget all about it when they visit the internet?

Still hoping for a "dark below" xpac taking place mostly below the ground/water level and focusing on N'zoth.

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Yes. We still have N'Zoth to contend with -go to 2.32 in the following video for the question:

So if The Dark Below does become real at some point, it could be a South Seas/Azshara/N'Zoth expansion. And there's always the idea that if we go to other planets, we may encounter them because they're inter-dimensional beings (imagine one of those evil horrors floating through the Twisting Nether).
We shouldn't have one for a while seeing as they've been featured almost constantly (apart from the one summoning quest in TBC with the Dark Conclave tribe in SMV) in every expansion. Give it a rest for at least 4-5 years.

Hasn't there been some form of major Old God influence in pretty much every expansion except BC? You had C'thun (responsible for the Silithid, an entire zone's status, and two major raids) in Classic and Yogg-Saron in Wrath. Old Gods didn't make a direct appearance in Cataclysm that I can remember, but they were directly responsible for Deathwing's insanity, which was obviously a pretty big deal in Cataclysm. And, of course, there was the whole Garrosh Tentacle Monster thing in MoP.

I know Yogg-saron only directly appeared as a boss for one patch in Wrath, but his influence on the expansion's story was pretty significant.

edit: After looking on Wowpedia, there is a brief mention that a group of arakkoa in BC called the Dark Conclave was attempting to call forth a "Summoned Old God" when we stopped them through a quest. I think I vaguely remember doing that quest, but nothing ever really came of it.

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Originally Posted by SourceOfInfection

Sometimes you gotta stop sniffing used schoolgirl panties and start being a fucking samurai.

I'm suffering from mixed feelings towards another Old God expansion. On the one hand, they're pretty awesome looking chaps with a penchant for being complete dicks (not unlike my favourite Chaos god). However, they've had a presence in every expansion bar one (TBC), even more so than the Legion (again, TBC).

Moot points regardless. There will be another Old God expansion, just a question of when.

Pretty much everything that is "evil" in wow is caused by the old gods or sargeras in one way or another.

Well despite the scourge being based on Northrend they havn't got corrupted by Yogg-Saron, they only shown us that Old Gods were able to corrupt the livings, even the titanic watchers, WotLK's main theme remain the scourge and the Lich King, Yogg-Saron just appears as a boss because having a raid on Northrend in another expansion would sound weird and there's only a little part of our "adventure" dedicated to him.
Even in Ulduar, only Yogg himself and Vezax call old gods to mind.

We will almost definitely see another 'Old God' expansion. A lot of that is just because Blizzard has decided to tie them to everything meaning all of the expansions are by default... 'Old God' expansions. Even Vanilla was very 'Old God' centric in many ways. Of course if Blizzard is wanting to make a WoW2 they may hold off on some of the stuff people are 'certain' they'll be seeing in WoW and use it as content in newer iteration of the game.